Things literally sped up at the combine Sunday as a very fast group of receivers took to the field and scorched the floor of the RCA Dome. After several running backs looked good in the morning session, the wideouts stole the show in the afternoon.
Coming off a Senior Bowl in which he performed brilliantly as a receiver, long snapper and kick returner, the bar was set high for Matt Jones, the former quarterback from Arkansas. With that, Jones may have bettered his outing from a month ago as the 240-pound athlete ran 40 times of 4.42 to 4.39 seconds, depending on who was holding the stopwatch. Jones then worked at both quarterback and receiver.
Unlike Saturday's performance by
Maurice Clarett, this year's other draft stepchild pleasantly surprised scouts. Former USC receiver
Mike Williams unexpectedly took off his sweat pants and ran the 40, turning in adequate times of 4.62 and 4.56. Weighing in at 229 pounds Friday, Williams will wait until his pro day in the middle of March before showing scouts his pass-catching abilities.
South Carolina junior
Troy Williamson blistered across the field with hand-timings that hovered in the very low 4.3 area. Some had Williamson as fast as 4.27.
Before that, unheralded Jerome Mathis of Hampton set the pace with similar times as a number of watches read below 4.30. Courtney Roby of Indiana, Leron McCoy of Indiana-Pennsylvania as well as Dan Sheldon from Northern Illinois all ran extremely fast times and impressed the scouts on hand.
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02-28-2005, 10:17 AM
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